BU Spoils Morrisons Four-Goal Night in Overtime

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Freshman Conor Morrison
became the first Crimson player in more than a decade to tally four
goals, but Boston University scored with 19.5 seconds remaining in
regulation and again at 2:42 of overtime to defeat the Harvard
men’s hockey team, 6-5, Tuesday night at sold-out Bright
Hockey Center.

Chris Connolly scored the overtime winner for the Terriers (4-7-1)
from the left slot after getting the puck from Nick Bonino. Zach
Cohen netted the tying goal, banging in a deflected shot from David
Warsofsky at the right post, less than a minute after
Morrison’s fourth goal put Harvard (1-5-2) on top. Cohen and
Joe Pereira scored twice each for BU, which went 3 for 5 on the
power play and held a 49-26 edge shots. Kieran Millan had 21 saves
for the Terriers.

Kyle Richter made a career-high 43 saves for the Crimson, and Alex
Killorn scored his fifth goal. Morrison, who entered the game with
one career goal, had the Crimson’s first four-goal outing
since Chris Bala ’01 against Vermont on March 6, 1998. Daniel
Moriarty logged a pair of assists for Harvard.

The back-and-forth opening period featured two goals and 11 shots
by each team. Both BU goals came on the power play, with Joe
Pereira netting the first on the rebound of a Max Nicastro point
shot about four minutes into the game.

Harvard then scored two unassisted goals less than four minutes
apart. Morrison’s came after he grabbed a loose puck in
front. Killorn picked up a puck in the neutral zone and backhanded
a shot that deflected off of Millan’s blocker and into the
goal. The Terriers tied it up with a Cohen deflection of a
Warsofsky point shot during a five-minute power play.

The teams remained tied after another Pereira power-play goal and
another even-strength tally for Morrison in the second period. The
rookie put Harvard on top at the 2:37 mark of the second, skating
in from the right to backhand in the second rebound following a
shot from Chris Huxley on the point and another from Moriarty in
front. Pereira scored on a rebound of his own, at 6:54, after Chris
Connolly tipped a Kevin Shattenkirk point shot.

Harvard twice took the lead on Morrison goals in the third period,
only to see the Terriers knot the score each time. Morrison
completed his first hat trick five minutes into the frame, taking a
long outlet pass from Alex Biega, looping through the zone and
beating Millan with a backhander.

A would-be Louis Leblanc goal was wiped off the board for being
directed in with a skate and Bonino tied it at 13:51. The Crimson
looked to be in control after Leblanc and Moriarty dug the puck out
of the right corner and Morrison was there for the finish with 1:18
showing on the clock. BU, however, pulled Millan for an extra
attacker to tie the game and had three of the four shots in
overtime en route to the sudden victory.